Video snippet that provides a window into what Richard Taylor does for a living...Special effects for Narnia movies, Lord of the Rings, etc.



"Being a dyslexic chap as a young guy, my reading skills weren't particularly hot." - Richard Taylor



His father was an engineer and mother was a science teacher. “For me, it came down to the cotton reel, the rubber band, the matchstick and the wax candle. Making tanks that you wind up and zip across the vege patch. Keeping yourself amused, inventing these worlds in your mind…” Taylor applied artificial wounds to his sister “and turned the mud in the local creek into big sculptures”, he says. “And, of course, I was always a huge toy soldiers fan.”

“I had a slow start – I’d been severely dyslexic as a child – and at Wesley (College) more out of fear than through any good tutoring, I managed to learn to read well."

Taylor recently collaborated to form the Dyslexia Discovery Exhibit in New Zealand: http://www.cmct.org.nz/dde/index.ht

For more about Richard Taylor's early life: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~wwpubafs/magazine/2002_Nov/stories/taylor_richard.html